Chapter 4 : A Hero's Introducion
"RING! RING!" Off went my alarm. Back in Alabama, I had set a wake up schedule to keep my sleeping in check, 4:30 for the weekdays and 7:00 for the weekends. Up and immediately awake, I turned to the alarm and shut it off. "I really gotta turn the volume on that thing down a bit." I rose from the mattress, rubbing my eyes.
For the remainder of the morning, I took a quick shower, got dressed, cleared the luggage out of my backpack and replaced it with school supplies. Once that was taken care of, I walked out of the room and headed for the elevator, already at the front of it was Bakugo, who looked at me as if he was going to kill me. "Follow me." He addressed me.
"Yeah, and why should I?" I retorted with an eyebrow raised.
He angrily got up in my face. "You wanna be the one explaining to Aizawa why the building got blown in half?" Bakugo smugingly threatened. Not wanting the imminent death of my classmates anytime soon, I nodded in agreement. "Wise decision, now come on you damn bastard." Bakugo then proceeds to head down the elevator with me following close behind.
Me and explosion boy found ourselves outside the building all by our lonesome, far enough to not wake up the others in case the two of us were too loud. "Now what was the reason for dragging me out he-"
All of a sudden, Bakugo halted me and grabbed my throat, slamming me to the ground. I tried to push his left hand off, but he used his other arm to open his other hand and to spark tiny explosions at my face, keeping me at bay to protect myself further. His already murderous face increased in anger by tenfold, looking me dead in the eyes. "Listen here you piece of shit, you think you're all tough just because you told me off yesterday. But guess what? That couldn't be farther from the truth, you son of a bitch."
I tried to speak, but he cut me off by covering my mouth with his free hand. "I'm only going to tell you this once just to make things clear between us. Get in my way or attempt to humiliate me again, and it'll end with your pathetic ass kicked by yours truly, got it?" I nodded my head in agreement and he released me from his clutches. As he began to walk away back to the dorms, I asked,
"Midoriya said you two were childhood friends, right?" Bakugo stopped in his tracks and turned back to me.
"What about the damn nerd? He's irrelevant."
"Were you always like this with him? Preying on those you considered weak?" I continued interrogating. He slowly walked up to me again in a more calm demeanor.
"What happens between me and Deku is none of your business. So why don't you do me a favor and keep your shit-talking mouth out of it?" Not wanting to start anything physical so early in the day, I let it be and Bakugo trailed off back to the dorms.
'Ain't that a way to start the morning?' I thought to myself.
For the rest of the morning, I took a quick jog around the campus, did some push-ups, stopped at a local fast food restaurant for a quick breakfast, and did the rest of my aerobic exercises before class started. As I wrapped up my morning routine, I quickly headed back down to the dorms to put on my school uniform, consisting of a grey suit with a red tie and dark-green jeans, and started my walk down to the school.
On the road to the campus, I couldn't help but keep thinking about what Bakugo said before he left.
'So why don't you do me a favor and keep your mouth out of it?'
My eyes rolled to my hand, clenching it into a fist. 'If only I could help you handling him, Midoriya.' my mind pondered.
"Hey Kamren!" a voice interrupted me and my thoughts. Catching up to me at a fast pace, Midoriya and Uraraka waved with happy smiles on their faces.
"Midoriya! Uraraka! Good to see you two up and awake for today." I smiled, glad to see my good friends.
"The feeling's mutual. So did you enjoy your room we helped set up?" asked Izuku
"Like you wouldn't believe.." I replied, reminiscing the feel of the mattress and the many pillows I laid my head on. "I slept like a newborn baby in a cradle."
"Makes sense with the All Might blanket you got." Ochaco teased, leaving my face crimson red. Noticing my embarrassed expressions, she apologized for her unintentional teasing.
"Anyway, why don't we hurry ourselves to the classroom, I'm sure Aizawa won't be happy if one of us decides to turn up late." I recommended.
"Right! Come on Deku, we still got enough time!" encouraged Ochaco. Midoriya nodded his head in response and the three of us ran off to meet our classmates back in our homeroom. I only hope that in case we make it a few minutes later than expected, Aizawa won't be there to scold us about being tardy.
Thankfully we reached the classroom just in the nick of time, as we set foot in the room, the bell rang for class to start, I sigh in relief.
'Phew...Any sooner and we would've been this close to getting scolded.'
Once the bells ended their ringing, I took my seat next to Momo and patiently waited for Aizawa to make an appearance. Mineta, who was sitting in the desk in front of mine, turned to me to start conversation.
"So Kamren, I heard you carried Asui's bags to her room last night, wanna fill me in on the juicy details?"
Little pink blush marks started to appear on my face at his embarrassing question. How did he know that? Was he still awake during then? What did he mean by "juicy?"
"Y-y-yes, but nothing of that sort. Now u-unless you want to fail our class, I s-suggest you keep your eyes and ears off me and onto the board." I told him off stuttering while my cheeks turned as red as a tomato. Intimidated, Mineta backed away and turned away from my direction.
I grabbed my backpack and pulled out my binder, opened it to a fresh sheet of paper, grabbed a pencil from the little compartments of the backpack, and got ready to write whatever I needed to jot down...all while putting in one headphone in my ear, that way I wouldn't completely become bored of the class instantly.
From the door came Aizawa and our modern hero art history teacher, Ms Midnight. Midnight wore a dominatrix-inspired costume colored with a whip and personality to match, from the class I had her in yesterday, she had a rather...let's say 'interesting' way of communicating with her students, yesterday while asking who I was, she said and I quote, "Oh, Kamren! That name brings back so many...'Fun' memories of my U.A years." Guess that's why she's called the "18+ Only Hero."
"Morning class, I hope you able to learn a couple things from your new classmate overnight." Announced Aizawa, alluding to me as the new student. "Back on today's topic, will be joining us for today's subject." I raised an eyebrow, curious as to what he meant, and why did it need to involve Midnight? Don't get me wrong, having another teacher around to help is a nice change of pace, I'd just rather it be someone like Cementoss or Ectoplasm as opposed to someone who would be rather physically distracting.
'Damn these teenage hormones.'
Before I got the chance to so myself, Tenya raised his hand high as fast as he could and asked boldy "As to what are we going to be learning today? How will this enhance our hero training? Will this be-" He stopped when he realized Aizawa was staring at him like he was going to call him out in front of the entire class, and as such, he slowly descended his hand to his desk. Good thing I didn't ask any questions.
"Before I was interrupted, today we are going to be writing our hero introductions." He finished.
Along with everyone else, I was scratching my head as to what he referring to. "What he means is that you will put together a heroic speech which you will present to at the end of the class. It can be as long as you want, but please keep the presentation under three to six minutes. You will have the entire class period to work on this and if you don't get finished, you may work on it when school is over, but know that it will cost ten points less" Midnight thankfully clarified to our confused minds.
"Thank you Midnight. She will be here to provide any assistance and advice you need, this isn't my cut of the gig so don't ask me to help on this subject. I'll be taking my nap now." Aizawa then did one of the weirdest things I've seen someone do out of nowhere, he pulled out a yellow sleeping bag, got in it, laid down on the ground like a caterpillar and zipped himself up.
'Don't teachers get fired for this type of behavior?'
While Midnight was walking around, giving my fellow classmates advice, I jotted down a couple mental questions to ask myself on a seperate sheet of paper.
'What kind of hero do you want to be?'
'What motivates you to help others?'
'Why do you do what you want to do?'
'What is the purpose for being heroic?'
'Why do you want to become a symbol for others?'
Those were just some of the couple of questions I began to ask myself, some harder to answer than others, thankfully I had all class to figure this out.
"You look a bit stumped, whatchya writing down?" I turned my head to the side and I saw Momo looking at me and my piece of paper.
"Oh, Yaoyorozu. I'm just jotting down some questions to help me out with the assignment, have a look, it might help you, too." I answered showing her the questions I wrote down. She began to eye them, thinking of her response.
"I think you might be thinking too hard on this." I looked at her with a curious face to give a clear message. "If you're wanting to go the route you're going, then I'd suggest your backstory."
"You mean write who I was like before I came here?" I asked. She nodded her head 'yes' in response.
"Are you two talking about the work?" I looked up and saw Midnight, who just happened to eavesdrop on me and Momo's conversation.
"Of course madam." I responded appropriately. With that, she tended to the other students, leaving me and Momo to continue our assignment.
"Sorry 'bout that, Yaoyorozu. I didn't mean to distract you from your work." I humbly apologize.
"It's fine. You don't have to apologize, if anything I should be sorry for taking you off course." she insisted. I smiled slightly in return.
An hour later passed, and so far I still had nothing but questions. It was either at this point I was really this dense not getting it or...nope, it's me being dense. For speeches and such, Mineta spouted nonsense about how he'll save "all the fine babes" and that was his inspiration to being a hero in the first place, as expected, he was scolded by Aizawa, Midnight, and especially Jiro and Hagakure, who after class gave him a well deserved beating.
Next was Bakugo, all he said was how he was better than everyone else and that if anyone gets in his way, he'll kill them, I know he's full of himself but he can't be serious. Then came Mina, Yuga Aoyama, Rikido Sato, Kaminari, Tenya, Momo, and Shoto Todoroki, everyone else didn't finish it so that means ten less points, that being me, Midoriya, Tokoyami, Hagakure, Uraraka, Kirishima, Jiro, Sero, Masahiro Ojiro, Tsuyu, Koji Koda, and Mezo Shoji. Thankfully Aizawa said he'd consider giving us five less points instead of ten, but that's if we manage to make ours better than what was presented today, and it's gonna be hard to beat Tenya and Momo.
It was the end of the day once again, the school closed down, and it was time to retire to the dorms once again. I was in my room, coming up with ideas for the speech.
"Come on now, think brain, think!" I told myself, almost breaking my pencil from the amount of frustration going through my veins.
'Knock! Knock!'
I got up from my desk and walked to the door, opening it to find Tsuyu awaiting on the other side. "Tsu? You needed something?"
"Yaoyorozu told me you were having a bit of trouble thinking something, so I thought I'd help, ribbit ribbit. Think of it as a way of me repaying you for helping me out last night." she explained herself.
"But don't you need to finish yours too? I don't recall hearing you giving your speech in front of class."
"I got done with mine a couple of minutes ago."
"Whatever you say, come on in." I welcomed her. Tsuyu walked in, peeking at the amount of film equipment I had at my disposal.
"You sure have a lot of time on your hands, don't you?" she pointed out.
"I tend to mess around with them every once in a while." I laughed slightly, she chuckles along with me. "Anyway, I've been asking myself what I should do for my speech. I've even wrote down myself questions to help me out better, but it's causing more frustration than satisfaction." I said, showing her the questions I showed Momo during class.
"Yaoyorozu mentioned you might've been thinking about this a bit too hard. You're even using broader vocabulary, speak like a normal person, ribbit. People might not understand what you're saying." Tsuyu advised me, I returned with a blush, noticing my constant use of long words and adjectives.
"Yeah, whatever you say."
She raised a finger to her mouth, guessing it's another part of her amphibian-like nature. "Think about it, who has been an important role model in your life?"
My eyes widened at her question, my heart felt like it stopped beating after she said 'important role model.' There was one person I looked up to ever since I met him, but should I even consider telling her, let alone anyone something that personal?
"Hello? You in there?" Tsuyu snapped me back to reality.
"Sorry, I...was thinking about someone I knew before coming here." I apologised.
"Is there something wrong?"
"I'm ok, it's just...my role model was so important to me." I sighed sadly.
"If you don't mind, would you like to talk about it?" She asked.
"You know what, I'd like that. Gimme a minute, I'm gonna pull something up on my computer." As Tsuyu waited patiently, I logged onto my desktop and got into a folder titled 'Old Memories,' inside the folder was one singular video. "I do warn you though, some of the content of this video may be...difficult to watch." I warned. She nodded her head in agreement and I played the video.
The video played like it was playing a slideshow, it showed a young boy, a middle aged adult and an elderly man as the first picture. The boy was labeled as 'Me,' the middle aged man was labeled as 'Father/Matthew," and the elder was labeled as 'Grandfather/Frank.'
"That you in the photo?" Tsuyu asked, pointing to the boy.
"Yeah, I was kinda chubby for a bit as you can see for yourself." I smiled lightly.
The video then transitioned from the photo to a family home video-style shoot at a birthday party at a local Chuck-E-Cheese.
"You enjoying the Pizza, Kam?" asked my grandfather in the video.
"Oh you know it! Thank you for bringing me here, Pee-pa." my past self said. Tsuyu giggled a bit at what I used to call Grandpa.
"Pee-Pa?"
"It was my way of saying stuff in English, at least first starting out." I explained.
Going back to the video, it went from the kid-friendly restaurant to an apartment that looked to be on the second floor, the camera was focused on me sleeping in the living room chair upside down, my grandpa, holding the camera, sighs in disappointment.
"Matthew, you better know what you're doing. I'm not so sure if I can keep doing this, he needs his father."
The next clip played, it had my father in the background surrounded by his friends, all of which were smoking joints and marijuana. The camera changed focus to me, coughing my young ass off on account of my asthma. Father, from the other room, put down the drug and walked over to me, patting my back to get all of the toxic air out of my lungs.
My face turned one of happiness to anger constantly at every clip. The next couple of scenes showed me in several environments with my Grandfather and Father, one had Grandpa and I playing basketball with my father and a woman near her age, warming my heart, in another scene, it had my father and the woman yelling at each other, I, holding the camera, turned to a baby boy, who was laying down on the bed I was sitting on, and said "Don't worry buddy, we'll be ok, I know we will. This'll only last for a couple of months, then everything is going to be back to normal soon enough."
Tsuyu, now noticing my soon to become rage, tapped my shoulders. I changed my point of view from the screen to her. "Are you ok? You look like you're about to punch a hole through your computer."
Before I got a chance to answer, the second to last clip played. Grandpa and Dad were arguing over Dad's latest decisions at that point, me, being oblivious as I was, were on the living room couch playing those old Plug n Play consoles you'd find in a pawn shop.
"Fuck you! Do you know the type of support I've been giving to my kid?!" insulted Father.
"Support? You call smoking pot and hitting your girlfriend supporting Kamren?" retorted Grandpa.
More words were said, then out of nowhere, the two men started throwing punches and kicks from the kitchen to the living room. As the two were too focused on each other, they didn't take notice that I was there, so they unintentionally broke both the T.V and the console. Me being the passive type and a youngling at the time, tried to break up the fight, but alas, it was to no avail.
"Kamren! Get away from them, damn it!" ordered my mother, who was filming it just in case this were to go too far, she would show it to the police.
While I was trying to break up the fight, Dad must've gotten too careless and accidentally smacked me across the room, my young body hit the wall hard. The two of them stopped fighting and all three of them just stared at me in shock, I on the other hand was both sorrowful and unbelievably pissed. Since I was young at the time, I didn't know how to handle the situation well so there was only one option my young mind had.
My past self ran to the nearest room and opened up the window. "Kamren! Get down from there this instant!" commanded my father. There was no use to even attempt bringing me back to my senses, my stubbornness was too much.
"Kamren..."
I looked at Tsuyu, who I'd forgot was even there for all of this, my mind was too focused on what was happening.
"Please, for both our sakes, turn this off." she pleaded, and so I did as she requested. The screen went from me on the edge of a window to complete emptiness.
"So, what happened after that?" Tsuyu asked.
"I used my quirk to fly away from all three of them and I had to live out in a abandoned shack for a week. Once all that was over, my Dad said he'd do better in raising me...but he didn't keep his promise. Many years after that, Grandpa passed away and I felt like the whole world was crashing down on me." I paused to catch my breath. "At that time, I was living with my father and another one of his girls. This was when I grew more respect for him as I was only twelve or thirteen at the time."
"I...I'm sorry for your loss. Wait, how old are you?"
"Just turned sixteen." I answered. "So yeah, this wasn't that too long ago."
"If you don't mind, I'd like to see your quirk, ribbit." She requested, changing the subject slightly. I agreed and began to take my shirt off. "I don't think this is what I meant." Tsu giggled, I returned with a little blush.
"Don't worry, it's nothing like that, I swear." As the shirt was completely off, two blue wings sprouted from by back, they were about my body size, if not taller.
"Wow...Can I touch them?"
Not really minding, I nodded and she began to feel the soft texture of the feathers, I shivered with every caress. Tsuyu stopped after a couple more seconds and I put my shirt back on.
"Anyways, shouldn't we get back to the assignment?" I reminded.
"Right."
We started to come up with ideas that seemed good at first, but when the conclusion came, we had to restart from the beginning, and it was like this for about an hour. It wasn't until then when Tsuyu came up with the answer.
"You didn't exactly have the greatest childhood, did you?" Tsuyu brought up, referencing what the video displayed earlier.
"Yeah...it's been pretty hectic."
"Frank must've been a great person."
"That he was, he always treated me like he was my father. Ironic isn't it?" I quipped.
"What would you say to him now?"
"More than you could imagine, Tsu." I turn to look at a clock on the desk, it was about 11:50. "Oh crap! It's getting late. We'd better stop for now, I'll figure something out tomorrow."
"You're right, I guess we must've forgotten about the time. I'll see you later." She proceeds to exit out the door. "And Kamren?"
"Yeah Tsu?"
"Know that you can always come talk to me if this type of stuff happens, I want to help."
"I'll keep that in mind. Thank you for coming tonight, I needed that."
"Anytime, ribbit." Tsuyu then left the room to leave me in my own thoughts.
For the rest of the night, I spent my time thinking about what she said about Grandpa.
'What would you say to him now?'
I'd...I'd thank him for everything he's done for me. If it weren't for him, I wouldn't have been able to have a roof over my head, or able to eat. I wouldn't have learnt how to love like I have, I wouldn't have possibly have any idea on how to do things on my own. I...I...I'd hug him and tell him how much he meant to me, how much of a caring individual he was, how more of a father he seemed to be than that scumbag.
I'd tell him to never let go.
Morning came and so did the time for me to get my ass up and get myself ready for the day. I didn't have long to sleep since I stayed up so late with Tsuyu, then again, if I didn't have her over, I wouldn't have been able to vent like I did. As usual, I got myself dressed, but since I stayed up, I decided to grab myself some coffee and relax before school started again.
"Now how the hell am I going to do this? I only have an hour before classes start, so I need to come up with something or I'll get no points." I thought to myself. "Come on, think! What would Grandp-"
A silence from both my mind and the room lasted for the next couple of minutes, how could I have been so blind? So oblivious? The answer was there the whole time, and I didn't even once thought for a second. He was my role model, right? So why not take notes from him and help others like he helped me.
"Eureka! I got it!" I boldly announced to myself. I rushed to the backpack, grabbed a paper and pencil, and began to write like my life depended on it.
For the next forty-five minutes, I began writing this speech like crazy fast, well I had to given the time constraint I was in. At the end of writing it, my brain was exhausted, my hand felt sore, and my eyes began to dry up, so I went to the bathroom, took off my glasses, and watered by face using the water from the sink.
Putting the speech in my backpack, I rode down the elevator and made by way outside the door leading to outside. However, as I opened the door, I was then introduced to Mineta and Kaminari, who were standing right out the door as if they were expecting me at that moment.
"What did you and her do last night, Campbell?" asked Mineta, pointing his finger at me.
"And don't lie to us, we hear everything that goes on in this building so there's nothing to hide." continued Kaminari, whose hand sparked yellow electricity. Guessing he overheard some of the stuff me and Tsuyu were saying last night, must've used his quirk somehow since his room is on floor three.
"It isn't what you think, you two. She was trying to help me get through the speech last night, and then it became personal to a scale I don't feel comfortable talking about right now." I explained myself.
"Oh yeah? 'Personal' you say?" misinterpreted Mineta.
"You gotta be kidding me, you're only here a couple days and you're boning Asui already? Damn you, Kamren! Who's next on the table? Ashido? Yaoyorozu? Uraraka?" further misunderstood Kaminari.
'Shit! Now I gotta explain to these morons what I actually meant.'
"That's not what I meant! You're taking it outta context! There's no 'boning' of any kind going on!" I attempted to reason with them, blushing on the false accusations.
"Then what else was personal?!" yelled the both of them. I then had to tell them all about what happened last night...well, except her touching my wings since they could blackmail me or something if I told them.
"Jeez man, sorry 'bout that. Guess we should've thought about it cleaner." apologized Kaminari. Mineta sighed disappointingly like he was expecting something other than family issues.
"Yeah, you think?"
"Anyway, we'll meet you in class, hopefully you work things out with your speech by then, and don't worry about us telling anyone, we'll keep this as a secret between us." Mineta ended as he and his friend walked back in the building to get themselves better prepared.
'Hopefully I don't have to worry about those two again, at least they have the decency to not start any gossip about me and Tsu, that's the last thing either one of us has to worry about. I oughta keep my voice down if I wanna keep a low profile.'
Once the perverted duo had been dealt with, I made my way down to the campus, it was a somewhat lengthy road as it took about twenty minutes just to get there by foot.
'Next time, I'll just use my wings to get there. I think the teachers allow their students to use their quirks on school grounds anyway.'
Finally reaching the campus, I was delighted to meet Midoriya at the front entrance. "Midoriya! Wait up!" I shouted, running to catch up to the green haired teen.
"Oh Kamren, how's the speech coming along? I heard you were having trouble coming up with a final draft." He asked.
"I got finished with it earlier this morning, thanks for asking. Tsu came over last night to help me a bit and I'm grateful because of that."
"That's great! Asui has a knack for helping out people. I should know by experience." He congratulated.
"You worked with her before?" I asked.
His tone of voice then dramatically shifted from joy and thrill to one of a serious nature. "Well...do you remember hearing about what happened at the USJ earlier this year?"
"Yeah, I've heard all about it. What does that have to do with Tsuyu?"
"A villain with a transportation quirk teleported me, Asui and Mineta to the shipwreck zone. During then, we strategized ourselves out of that situation. If it weren't for her calm personality and ability to rationalize under that situation, the three of us would've been dead by now." He explained himself. "Then when we found the guy who organized the attack, he almost killed her using his quirk, which seemed to dissolve anything using his hands, similar to Uraraka's quirk to levitate objects and people."
That last bit sent chills down my spine, and I was full of disgust and anger, thankfully I managed to calm myself down before wanting to punch the nearest person.
"I see. Well, how about we get to class, I'm sure we don't want to end up late." I stated, shifting the subject.
"Oh, right! Come on!"
Me and Midoriya ran through the building like yesterday and we managed to find our homeroom, there we found Tenya sitting by his lonesome.
'Ok, this is starting to get ridiculous.'
Minutes later, the rest of our classmates joined in, the bells rung, and then came Aizawa and Midnight, ready to hear everyone else's speech before moving on to the main topic for today.
"Alright, whose turn is it to go next?" asked Midnight. Confident in my speech, I rose my hand as quickly as he ended his question. "Great! Remember, speak to the class as if they were kids meeting you for the first time. Tell them why you want to become a hero." She advised.
"Will do." I got up from my seat, went to the front of the class, and stood in front of the chalkboard.
"Hello everyone, I'm the hero, Guardian Angel, and today I'm here to answer a very important question that applies to future heroes in training. 'Why do people become heroes?' " I introduced myself.
The students seemed intrigued, but yet already bored as if I was talking like I was giving a Tenya-style pep talk, even Tsuyu looked unimpressed with how I was handling it.
"Coming from a experienced standpoint, I had to deal with family that didn't give a damn about me, let alone support me for almost thirteen years." I vaguely hinted towards my father. "Thankfully I no longer have to tolerate such filth in my life anymore."
The class then raised their heads in interest. 'Looks like I got their attention.'
"When I enrolled in this facility, I mostly came here due to luck. I didn't have any special classes and I only know how to use my quirk through home training for three years and ongoing. That could also be said for my reason to become a hero, I never really gave it much thought until very recently when someone helped me find it."
I took a short peek towards Tsuyu's direction, she was smiling at me. Getting back on track, I continued.
"Even during those years of that part of the family, my Grandpa always made my day shine brighter than the others could darkened. He made sure I was safe, he gave me a roof over my head when others couldn't, he gave me hope for a future I wouldn't have been able to see otherwise. Unfortunately, his time has passed on and I'm the next generation, that means I need to live up to his expectations."
The students, including Midnight, had sorrowful faces upon me.
"So as this valiant hero of justice makes way, I promise to set out to do what he did for me. I'll protect those that can't help themselves and keep menaces of villainy away! That is my conviction! That is my reason for being a hero!" I ended the speech.
"Outstanding performance! 9/10! I'd give it higher but you need to suck in your audience instead of boring them with such a cliche introduction." commented Midnight, referencing my class not really showing much interest in the beginning.
After my speech was over, I walked back over to my desk, shaking. Usually, whenever I go up on stage, I shake my body due to the amount of pressure I have to endure, it isn't stage fright by any means, but it can sure as hell feel like it sometimes.
Everyone else made their speeches and so ended class, as the bells rang for the final time, the guys and I walked out the building and headed over to the dorms for tonight.
"That speech was so manly, dude!" complemented Kirishima, who had his arm over my neck.
"Thanks man, you wouldn't believe how much that took outta me." I thanked him.
"Your Grandpa sounds like a great guy, wish I had that kind of role model in my life." added Sero.
"So tell us, who helped you realize what your reason was?" asked Kirishima.
Before I could properly answer, Mineta blunted said "It was Asui." My cheeks started to blush once more. Kaminari and Mineta then started to sing that annoying "Sitting in a Tree" bullshit, wanting to do this for a while now, I grabbed both their heads and smacked them against each other, making them fall to the ground, rolling and covering their heads.
'Serves those two right for teasing me, those bastards.'
We finally got to the dorm rooms where everyone pitched in some money for some pizza as to congratulate everyone on their success, who knew that Hungry Howies had a big reputation here in Japan? Once that was said and done, we all said our goodbyes and headed back their rooms to turn in for the night, well...almost everyone.
On the fourth floor, I exit from the elevator door and head towards my room, only to find Shoto Todoroki awaiting for me at the door. Out of all the people I was expecting to see at my door, he wasn't exactly what I'd call 'expected.'
"Todoroki? You need me for something?"
"I wanted to ask you about what you said in your speech. Your family, more specifically, if you don't mind."
'Well then, this is sure a surprise.'
"Yeah, what about my family did you want to discuss?" I asked, curiously.
"Was your father ever abusive towards you?" he putted it bluntly. I jumped at his strange question.
"To a length, yes. But why do you want to know?" I questioned Endeavor's son. He then walked up to me and whispered in my ear,
"You're not the only one who regrets having anything to do with our parents."
Todoroki then headed down the elevator, leaving me with much to think about.
'Did...did Endeavor abuse him, too?'